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In collaboration with a new initiative from Austria in Europe, the MIT Edgerton Outreach program is working on a new project, Cineatrix.

The original idea stemmed from the knowledge that there is a new generation of children who are digital natives, kids who haven't known a world without iPods and digital cameras, let alone a comfort level with computers. An MIT student from Austria, Daniel Pressl, is now working on a new idea for the project, Cineatrix. This will combine film, theater and comics. There are two main thoughts to the program:

First and foremost, as a means of story-telling, children will be able to take movies, add special effects to the movies and be able to tell their stories in never imagined ways. The goal for the end of the course is every child will be able to bring a DVD home, to which they have contributed through filming, editing or storytelling.

The second aim is that children, between 10 and 15 years old, get to teach their technological know-how in media and videography to children between 5 and 10. This extraordinary, media-pedagogical concept has proven to show great possibilities and a new way of learning for children and has been running for the past 4 years, in Austria. We run parallel sessions in which the older children are trained on our particular hardware/software to do the filming, editing and other finishing stages, and have the older children then turn around and teach these same skills to the Storytellers, the younger children.

Cineatrix Video - Der Liebestrank

Klagenfurt, Austria

Dieses Video wurde von vier Volksschulkindern (7-8 Jahre) der Volksschule Woelfnitz und zwei Coaches (16 Jahre alt, HTL und KIMEKI) mit dem Medium CINEATRIX entwickelt. Die Geschichte, das Schneiden des Materials, das Einfuegen des Tons, das Filmen und alle weiteren Aufgaben um den Film zu erstellen wurden von diesem Team alleine bewerkstelligt!

PART I

PART II

PART III

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September 2007 - Project Cineatrix begins

at the Edgerton Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In collaboration with a new initiative from Austria in Europe, the MIT Edgerton Outreach program is working on a new project, Cineatrix. The original idea stemmed from the knowledge that there is a new generation of children who are digital natives, kids who haven't known a world without iPods and digital cameras, let alone a comfort level with computers. An MIT student from Austria, Daniel Pressl, is now working on a new idea for the project, Cineatrix. This will combine film, theater and comics. There are two main thoughts to the program.

First and foremost, as a means of story-telling, children will be able to take movies, add special effects to the movies and be able to tell their stories in never imagined ways. The goal for the end of the course is every child will be able to bring a DVD home, to which they have contributed through filming, editing or storytelling.

The second aim is that children, between 10 and 15 years old, get to teach their technological know-how in media and videography to children between 5 and 10. This extraordinary, media-pedagogical concept has proven to show great possibilities and a new way of learning for children and has been running for the past 4 years, in Austria. We run parallel sessions in which the older children are trained on our particular hardware/software to do the filming, editing and other finishing stages, and have the older children then turn around and teach these same skills to the Storytellers, the younger children.

21st May 2007 - iPressl starts a collaboration with

Kimeki initiiert Projekte zur Enkulturation von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Die Workshops verfolgen das Ziel, die Kindliche Fantasie zu inspirieren, das Zutrauen zu schaffen, Geschichten mündlich, schriftlich oder visuell zu artikulieren und nebenbei kritischen Umgang mit Medien zu erlernen.  Das kreative Tun von Kindern - gemeinsam mit Jugendlichen - zeitigt außergewöhnliche Ergebnisse und weckt beiderseits enorme Potentiale.

Geschichten von Kindern in Worten, Schrift und Bildern bildeten den Ausgangspunkt dieses neuartigen, medienpädagogischen Projekts für Kinder im Alter von 5 – 10 Jahren.

Jedes Kind hat (s)eine Geschichte zu erzählen. Diese in verschiedensten Mediendisziplinen umzusetzen, ist ein Ziel. Die Wissensvermittlung erfolgt innerhalb einer Mediengeneration. Das bedeutet: Als Lehrende werden 12- bis 16-jährige Schüler aus fachspezifischen höheren Schulen herangezogen.

iPressl wird eine neue Technik fuer das Erzaehlen dieser Geschichten zur Verfügung stellen. Kimeki war begeistert von dem Medium

"GERÄUSCHFOTOGRAFIE":

Angela, aus Österreich, beim Zerstechen eines Luftballones bei 2fast4u (April 2007, Wolfsberg).

Loren Winters (Gastfotograf bei 2fast4u in Wolfsberg und Professor in North Carolina), wie er in die Luft springt und im Sprung durch sein Klatschen den Blitz auslöst.

iPressl wird ein aehnliches Medium (Photographie oder Videographie) erfinden und bauen, womit es den Kindern moeglich sein wird deren Geschichte, in ungekannter Weise zu erzaehlen.